Leighton Meester says that Gossip Girl was not the healthiest environment

Leighton Meester has mixed feelings about his time on Gossip Girl.

For six seasons, from 2007 to 2012, the 32-year-old actress played Blair Waldorf in the CW series (adapted from Cecily von Ziegesarthe novels). Meester had been working for years after leaving his native Florida for New York and California.

As Meester says in the new issue of PorterEdit, in Manhattan, "I went to school with people who, at a very young age, felt they knew what they wanted to do and they pursued it." At age 14, she moved to Los Angeles and took small jobs – "a pilot almost every year, dummies, commercials, etc." – and graduated as early as the age of 16. to be a child and that you can work as an adult, that's good for your resume. "

Meester found success by booking small roles in episodes of 24, 7th Sky, 8 simple rules, Cross the Jordan, entourage, the north coast, Veronica Mars and other successful programs. But the auditions have wreaked havoc on the actress, who had little significant contact in the early days of her career. "It's a very emotional job because people who hire you or do not hire you judge you based on factors that in most cases are out of your control. 14, 15, a great advantage is that you are "really professional", it's not really a childish compliment. It bothers you if you do not take it properly, "she says. "It was important for me, as an adult, to pursue other things that, in my opinion, build my identity separately, and perhaps more than other people who have started [working] later."

The actress was a stranger when she was joined next to Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen and Ed Westwick in Gossip Girl. "It's the best scenario that a show can last six years," says Meester. "It does not happen often."

The cast of Gossip Girl usually film 16 hours a day, five days a week. "I'll get there at 5 am and leave at 8 pm," she tells the magazine. "Many days I have not seen the sun."

The series has also transformed its stars into nocturnal sensations. Looking back, the actress realizes that she was not ready for the sudden fame that had come to her. "I was young when I started Gossip Girl. There were many more people around me and I was looked at. If you do not have the right point of view, you could certainly be confused by such nice people with you or who judge you for typical behavior in a young person of 20, 21, who makes mistakes but must do it very publicly. "she says." I am not haunted at that time, but it has been interesting and helpful for me to review and consider it as an adult. "I do not know if it was the healthiest environment."

"Everyone has their own way, especially in their early twenties, when it comes to who they are.[[[[Gossip Girl]I was put in a place where this trip was accelerated. "I had to be lucky and be able to be very early, I had to find quickly and with a not fully developed mind to discern what is real and what is not on finding and staying friends with people who are true. "

Meester describes Gossip Girl as "a very special moment" in his life, but as many of his former co-stars have said in previous interviews, this is not necessarily something that she wants meet again. That being said, the Single parents star admits, "I will not trade it for nothing.This is a kind of time capsule.A lot of the questions that come out of it are:" Do you miss it? & # 39; "Did you like what you were wearing? And I understand that, and – and I say that with nothing but love – it's like saying," High school was a time Amazing for you, would you like to be able to go back there? And the truth is that it was such a special and unique experience, but no, I would not want to go back in. I was a kid!